NW Noggin: Art + Brains

WHAT: Homelessness & the Brain @ p:ear WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 WHEN: Thursday, October 19, 10:00am – 1:00pm (9:00am set up for presenters) In 2017, 4177 people in Portland have no permanent home, according to the latest biennial Point in Time count of those living on the streets or in...

Post written by graduate Noggin volunteer Brittany Alperin “Music can minister to the minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorry, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.” –William...

NW Noggin joined our frequent outreach collaborator Youth Engaged in Science (YES!) from the Fair Neuroimaging Lab at OHSU on Saturday at the inspiring TEDx conference in North Portland, to excite visitors with art and information on how our brains develop, and (mostly!) function… TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is…

Noggin joined OHSU medical students and graduate students – including many of our outreach specialists – for a welcome barbecue and information fair, complete with Noggin brains, flu shots, Buster’s pulled pork and Widmer IPAs… Our knowledgeable volunteers, including Jordan Ray and Adam Bishop from Portland State University, and Noggin…

Curious folk, partnered and not, streamed into our favorite, world-renowned Portland bike bar to learn what current neuroscience research – and art – suggest about alcohol’s effects on social relationships… Our velocipedal venue offers extensive opportunities to explore the role of this popular drug (an array of quality craft beer…

We are all brains, receiving incoming messages about limited aspects of our bodies and landscapes, routing information along distributed, developing networks of wire-like cellular processes, and coupling this relevant electrochemical flow to outputs which move muscles and generate our complex human behavior… I enjoyed a great conversation last month with…

Post by Jesse Hamlin, Noggin Resource Council member for music and performance UPDATE: See how it went! Noggin Fest 2017! As you may well have heard, NW Noggin is headed to DC this fall to bring brains to DC area public schools and present on arts integration, research, outreach, and…

With fires still raging in the Columbia River Gorge, Noggin returned to the annual Camas 4 Kids Health Fair under smoky yellow skies, along with our popular brains, pipe cleaners and outreach volunteers… LEARN MORE: Portland has the worst air quality in the country We arrived at the impressive Doc Harris…

Post written by Noggin volunteer Kim Engeln (OHSU) Last weekend I hit the road to bring the neuroscience of caffeine and alcohol to beautiful Astoria, Oregon with Alfredo Zuñiga, Jacob Schoen, Jeff Leake, and Bill Griesar… I was so excited to hear that our talk back in April at Velo…

This week NW Noggin visited historic Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River, to explore some fascinating links between two local favorites – caffeine and alcohol – and the combined actions and effects of these popular drugs on human and rodent behavior and brains… “Green Douglas firs where the…

Synapses & Stories

NW Noggin is thrilled and honored to receive a grant from the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, a sovereign Native American nation in north-central Oregon, for “Synapses & Stories: Coyote, Grizzly and their Brains!”

We'll bring twelve Noggin volunteers studying neuroscience and art to the Lincoln County and Willamina School Districts this fall for three, day long visits aimed at making connections between figures in Grande Ronde and Siletz tribal stories (including Coyote, Crow and Grizzly) and their relevant neuroanatomy…